August in Douglas County comes down heavy by noon, the air thick off the pines along Chapel Hill Road, and the bermuda keeps right on climbing anyway. R.E.Y's Lawn Care Services meets it with a steady weekly rhythm — mow, edge, run the fence line, clear the walks — because in a Georgia summer a lawn left alone for two weeks stops being a lawn. There is real satisfaction in the striping that shows up across a wide front yard once the heat finally lets go toward evening. Every drive and curb gets blown clean before the trailer gate goes up. Douglasville households and neighbors over in Villa Rica and Bill Arp are on the route.